"The biggest astrobleme is the 275-mile wide formation on the eastern
shore of Hudson Bay, Canada, near the Nastapoka Islands."
Ask the Globe, The Boston Globe, Jun 16, 1999.

"Down on Earth, the central geological feature of the House of Commons
yesterday during question period was what Mr. Hadfield's astronomer
colleagues would call an astrobleme: the massive circular crater left
by the bone-crushing impact of a heavenly body. When Stockwell Day
crashed to Earth the blast radius took out most of the Alliance front
bench and much of the surrounding territory."
Paul Wells, Space oddities of the political kind, The National Post
(Canada), Apr 25, 2001.

Order is good. Mostly. It makes sure that the earth will go around the sun
in the same way as it has in the past and bring the summer to ripen the
mangoes. Patterns are good too - most of the time. They help us find our
shoes easily among an array of other pairs.

But stick too much to the same order and pattern and we lose. We lose the
opportunity to discover new lands, new paths, new flowers, new ways
(and new words!). Sometimes the break in order is by choice and at times
it's forced, as when you lose a job. But often it's a blessing in disguise.
It's an opportunity to explore and discover what remains hidden from the
old path.

This week's words are selected with no order, pattern or theme. These words
just are. But they're all interesting.
-Anu

X-Bonus

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to
be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. -Henry David Thoreau,
naturalist and author (1817-1862)

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